Today Is World Contraception Day: Make Informed Decision, Know Your Options- Adopt Life Planning

 Today Is World Contraception Day: Make Informed Decision, Know Your Options- Adopt Life Planning

Today is World Contraception Day,

Please let’s join others to sensitize our people on the importance of Family planning, Child Spacing and Life Planning.

Theme : IT’S YOUR LIFE, IT’S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

The international community observes  WORLD CONTRACEPTION DAY on 26 September OF EVERY YEAR to recognize the right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children. The importance of it was asserted at the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, and is reflected in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development under target 3.7. “By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes”.

Dimos Sakellaridis is the company’s country director DKT International Nigeria, supplier and distributor of Kiss and Fiesta condoms in the country, says with 80 million packs of its condom brands sold annually in Nigeria, there is yet no optimum use considering the huge population of sexually active Nigerians. Towards marking the 2021 World Contraception Day, spoke with Premium Times

Some of the reasons are tradition, religion and also the conservative nature of the typical Nigerian man towards public purchase of something like the condom.

It is very funny because even when I go to my country, people ask what I do in Africa and I say, I sell condoms. They laugh, but condom is a product that every sexually active person should be using especially those who have multiple sex partners. Of course, married people can use it for pregnancy prevention as well as other family planning methods. Sometimes when I introduce myself, I say I work for DKT, I am the country director and I am also known as the King of Condoms because we are the number one in Nigeria. At the same time one of our brands- Fiesta, has 14 variants so we get to make it fun and bring out the excitement in the usage of condoms.

We are trying to make people feel like condoms is not an obstacle during sex but part of the fun. This is why we have made our brand of “Kiss” very affordable where you can now buy three pieces for N100.

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